Even trying to do a very simple thing, like search through all past facebook messages or group posts for a given word, is essentially impossible.

I dont know where Facebook thinks they are going with their "graph search", but as of today it is absolutely horrible.

Google is no better, with complete inability to search through Hangouts history without going into GMail of all places. You would think a search company would do better.

There are standards such as ISO 27001 that are independently audited that can prove if a cloud provider is following the right security practices. I would seriously doubt your IT shop is ISO 27001 compliant. Amazon is, Google Apps is, as are many other cloud vendors.

The whole cloud boogeyman has to die. It is foolish, short sighted thinking. Moving applications to cloud is an opportunity for enterprises to finally do things PROPERLY in IT for once instead of cobbling together systems on shoestring budgets with lax security policies and unaudited shell scripts holding the mess together like crazy glue.

This. A million times this.

Getting so sick of the same old sub story about how the cloud is insecure, as if it is some rule of nature. The cloud will be as secure as the cloud vendor makes it.

The idea that sensitive data is more secure in-house than in the cloud, just because it is not inside your four walls, is not rooted in reality. It might make you FEEL more warm and cozy that the data is in your four walls, but does your company have all of the latest enterprise application level firewalls and IPS devices? Does your company have a well-staffed dedicated 24/7 SOC IN ADDITION TO a 24/7 NOC? Does your company have a defined IOC sharing procedure with it's peers?

So which has a better chance of having the resources needed to secure their environment - your tiny little IT shop with it's cash strapped budget, or an enterprise cloud vendor that has all of the above? My money is on the cloud vendor.

You are confusing K-Cups with these K-Cup 2.0 pods. K-Cups are what have a great range and are available anywhere - because they have no DRM and all patents were worked around. K-Cup 2.0 pods have a very horrible range and limited distribution. I feel sorry for anyone suckered into buying one of these newer brewers.

The whole reason I linked the wiki is because of the "Difficulties" section.

IE, despite what this Slashdot article implies, this is not really fully accepted theory yet. There are a large number of holes in the theory that the moon came from the earth that have yet to be reconciled.

How can they know for certain the moon came from an earth impact vs just a passing proto-planet without a well defined orbit that got caught in our gravity?

There is so much about the universe that is not understood at these timespans, I have a hard time believing that anything can be known for certain at this point in science. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...

For one, commercial quad-copters are a lot larger than the average bird unless you are talking about a giant eagle.

Second, if the drone is powered by a LiON battery pack and gets sucked into the engine, when the drone is struck by the impeller it COULD rupture the battery pack in a way that causes a small explosion. I don't know if this would be enough to damage the engine but I certainly would not dismiss it.

There is a big difference between what Uber and Lyft offer and what a free-for-all unregulated taxii industry of the past offers.

On one hand, you have some large companies that can be held to account for wrong doing. You CAN allow Uber and Lyft to operate, AND regulate them, you know - it is not an "either-or" situation.

On the other hand without any Uber or Lyft or regulation, you would have thousands of independent drivers with no ability to oversee them and no ability to hold them accountable in the aggregate, since there is no aggregate.

By choosing to not allow Uber and Lyft to operate AT ALL, even under regulation, the government is artificially choosing a winner and propping up a monopoly.

While you are right on one hand, the issue is more complex than this.

Even in the article itself it talks about how the government is fighting with itself (NIST and the NSA, where NIST's mandate by law is to make sure the government and public are secure and NSA is by law mandated to make sure they are not).

"The government" is a big thing and the left hand doesn't ALWAYS know what the right hand is doing. The problems arise when the right hand can operate with autonomy so that not only does the left not know what it is doing, but it has no authority to put it in check.

Find out the cost of IT constantly resetting forgotten passwords and also the projected cost of a security breach because everyone has to write them down.

If you want a REAL wake up call, pay a college kid $100 to show up to the office with a tool belt and tell the front desk he is there to check out the thermostat, and get him to grab a password off of a post-it note on someones desk. Bring that password to your director and say that if you wanted to, you cold have just cost your department X hundred thousands of dollars.

Docker does a lot more than this. The whole point of docker is to take the LXC stack and use it to build micro-services than can layer on top of each other seamlessly, and to create and maintain a repository of these containers than can be swapped in and out for upgrades with zero hassle. Think of docker like apt-get on lots of steroids.

I'll give you a bias against software engineers. A lot of engineers consider themselves "hot shit" because they worked on a few small projects and have been told they were "hot shit" on all of those. A lot of them thus have an unjust sense of entitlement and think that they know best in any and all things.

And this bias is why I have no issue with Torvalds putting some of these jokers in their place from time to time.

You are looking at things through an overly simplistic viewpoint. Many applications do not run just one process or daemon. Even simple applications like MySQL need many processes that are synchronized to the same version. An application I am working on docker-ifying right now has about 40 processes in total, all with their own init scripts and other things to manage. I doubt this application could even be deployed in Rocket at all the way it is described via this link.

If you have been using LXC for over 10 years and have a custom application already tuned to it, you are not Docker's case, and that is fine. What Docker is about is being able to rapidly download and deploy entire enterprise stacks, with each piece of the stack being totally isolated and thus easily maintainable and upgradeable, making the whole thing easily automated. Want to swap from Postgresql 8 to Postgresql 9? Swap out the container that someone else has already made and tested... done. It is a very useful project.

... and that browser was Chrome when they implemented WebRTC back in 2012....